The truffle is not a positive aphrodisiac, but it can upon occasion make women tenderer and men more apt to love.

Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are.

If any man has drunk a little too deeply from the cup of physical pleasure; if he has spent too much time at his desk that should have been spent asleep; if his fine spirits have become temporarily dulled; if he finds the air too damp, the minutes too slow, and the atmosphere too heavy to withstand; if he is obsessed by a fixed idea which bars him from any freedom of thought: if he is any of these poor creatures, we say, let him be given a good pint of amber-flavored chocolate... and marvels will be performed.

Gourmandise is an impassioned, rational, and habitual preference for all objects which flatter the sense of taste.

The first thing we become convinced of is that man is organized so as to be far more sensible of pain than of pleasure.

A connoisseur of gastronomy was congratulated on his appointment as a director of indirect contributions at Periguex: and, above all, in the pleasure there would be in living in the midst of good cheer, in the country of truffles, partridges, truffled turkeys, and so forth. "Alas!" replied with a sigh the sad gastronomer, "can one really live at all in a country where there is no fresh sea-fish?"

In the hands of an able cook, fish can become an inexhaustible source of perpetual delight.